Subject: CEO-worker pay ratios disclosure rule: SUPPORT

May 12, 2012

Honorable Securities and Exchange Commissioners:

As a journalist, I strongly urge that you promptly issue a rule
requiring publicly traded companies to disclose their ratio of
CEO-to-worker compensation, as required by Section 953(b) of the
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Pay-ratio
disclosure would, of course, enable boards of directors and investors to
evaluate the overall level of CEO compensation relative to other company
employees, and to understand the effect that the pay gap has on employee
teamwork, productivity, loyalty and motivation.

Additionally, however, journalists writing on business- and
labor-related issues and developments could use the information in
articles about executive and employee pay, benefits and working
conditions -- information that could help readers understand not just
major component of a company's health but also a crucial element in the
nation's socio-economic environment.